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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

UN Sec. Gen. Guterres would do well to study the facts before making speeches that display how little he knows about the issue of Palestine.

United Nations Secretary-General – Antonio Guterres – displayed how
little he knows of the history, geography and demography of Palestine
when addressing
the opening of the 2018 Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the
Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (“CEIRPP”).

Established by the General Assembly in 1975 - CEIRPP was responsible for the publication
in 1978 of a false narrative of the Arab-Israel conflict - “The Origins
and Evolution of the Palestine Problem 1917-1947" (“UN Study”) - which
has undoubtedly influenced United Nations thinking and decision-making.

Three examples highlight the falsity and outright bias of this UN Study:

1.Deliberately misrepresenting General Assembly Resolution 181 that spoke of a “Palestinian Arab State” - when claiming:

“After
investigating various alternatives the United Nations proposed the
partitioning of Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian
Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized.”

The actual wording of Resolution 181 stated:

“Independent
Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the
City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into
existence in Palestine....”

2.Omitting any mention of the fact
that 78% of Palestine had become an independent Arab State in 1946 and
been renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan.

3. Falsely alleging:

“The decision on the Mandate [for Palestine] did not take into account the wishes of the people of Palestine”

The evidence contradicting this falsehood actually sits in the United Nations' own archives.That evidence comprises:

-Meetings
of the Palestine Arab Delegation (Delegation) with the recently
appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies - Winston Churchill - on
12, 22 and 23 August 1921

-Letters
from 21 February 1922 to 23 June 1922 between the Delegation and the
Secretary of State for the Colonies during the Delegation’s stay in the
Hotel Cecil in London.

CEIRPP concealed this crucial archival
evidence - falsely inferring the Palestinian Arabs wishes had not been
taken into account when in fact they had been fully considered.

“I
remain steadfast in the United Nations and my commitment to supporting
the parties in their efforts to make the two-State solution a reality.

"There is no Plan B.

"A
two-State solution is the only way to achieve the inalienable rights of
the Palestinian people and secure a sustainable solution to the
conflict.”

Secretary-General Gutteres is apparently unaware that:

-The term “Palestinian people” was invented in the 1964
Palestine Liberation Organization Charter which also specifically
excluded any claim to exercise regional sovereignty “over the West Bank
in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” and “on the Gaza Strip”

-The
Palestinian Arabs were never mentioned in the 1922 League of Nations
Mandate for Palestine - being grouped in with “the existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine”

-The “two-State solution” - Israel and
Jordan – first envisaged in 1922 and actually proposed in 1937 - was
accepted by the Jews but rejected by the Arabs on both occasions. It was
95% achieved in 1994 when the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty was signed.

-The
“inalienable rights of the Palestinian people” went walkabout between
1948 and 1967 when an additional Arab State between Jordan and Israel
could have been created with the stroke of an Arab League pen after all
Jews living there had been forcefully expelled.

-There are many
Plan B’s involving Jordan – the major part of former Palestine – which
remains the key to resolving this conflict.

Secretary-General
Gutteres – with the greatest respect – needs a crash-course in the
actual – not fictitious - history of the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish
conflict. Relying on this false UN Study to gain his knowledge and
understanding of the conflict is not recommended.

David SingerSource: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21702 Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.